Boris Johnson: Salisbury attack a sign from Russia for potential defectors

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has said the Salisbury spy attack is directly linked to the recent Russian elections. 

Johnson also accused Russia of choosing the UK for a chemical attack because it had called out Russia over its past abuses.

He added that the Salisbury attack is a sign from Russia to other potential defectors.

The foreign secretary's comments were made as he appeared before British MPs on Wednesday, one day after 23 Russian diplomats left the UK for Moscow after being expelled a week earlier.

Retired military intelligence officer Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found slumped and unresponsive on a bench in Salisbury on 4 March. 

Tests later revealed they had been poisoned by a “military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia," according to British Prime Minister Theresa May.
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